Cross cultural adaptation of the Water Orientation Test Alyn (WOTA) 1 and 2 – Portuguese version

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View related articles View Crossmark dataMaterials and methods: It was used the method of translation/back translation sequential form. The 1st version analysis was made through the Delphi computerized process, by a 5 expert physiotherapists panel (3 female and 2 male), to achieve the linguistic and cultural equivalence. This study follows all the principles of the Declaration of Helsinki Results: The consensus and equivalence for both cultures was obtained after 4 rounds on the Delphi process. These results ensure the translation and adaptation for the portuguese culture. Discussion and conclusions: ICC-Compression Questionnaire has demonstrated its linguistic equivalence to ICC-Question ario de Compressão in both cultures as well as the face validity to be used in Portugal. However, it needs future studies to ascertain the remaining psychometric properties and complete the validation process, namely the translated questionnaire should be tested on a small (pilot) sample (about 30-50) of the meant respondents, which allows the investigators to make sure that the translated items have the same meaning as the original ones. After the translated questionnaire pass through this preliminary phase, one should conduct a pilot test for (re)validation in the new population.

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“…There are 13 skill items on a 4-point ordinal scale [ 27 ]. The internal consistency and test–retest reliability of the WOTA 1 was satisfactory (α = 0.91; 0.94; 95% CI) [ 28 ]. The test WOTA showed itself to be reliable and have correlation to functional improvements on land [ 27 ].…”